1921 in literature 1921 .Events January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury , London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard . February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap , publishers of The Little Review , are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses . March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe. April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English. May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience. May – A production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic , London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Shakespeare's day. June 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara's parodic The Gas Heart takes place at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris. It provokes audience derision. June 10 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London. September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba . September 26 – The Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich , England, an old chapel, is turned into an English Renaissance theatre for period drama by an amateur repertory company directed by Walter Nugent Monck . It opens with As You Like It . December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England imprisoned for blasphemous libel . December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista , in the broadsheet Actual No. 1 in Mexico City.New books Fiction Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Autumn Mountain" Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth Hall Caine – The Master of Man Karel Čapek – Trapné povídky Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge Arthur Chapman – Mystery Ranch A. E. Coppard – Adam & Eve & Pinch Me: Tales Mary Cholmondeley – The Romance of His Life Marie Corelli – The Secret Power Miloš Crnjanski – The Journal of Čarnojević Walter de la Mare – Memoirs of a Midget Mary Frances Dowdall – Three Loving Ladies Fran Saleški Finžgar – Pod svobodnim soncem F. Scott Fitzgerald *The Beautiful and Damned *Flappers and Philosophers Mikkjel Fønhus – Troll-Elgen John Galsworthy – To Let H. Rider Haggard – She and Allan Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth A. S. M. Hutchinson – If Winter Comes Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow Frigyes Karinthy – Capillaria Sheila Kaye-Smith – Joanna Godden Gaston Leroux – The Crime of Rouletabille Marie Belloc Lowndes – What Timmy Did Denis Mackail – Romance to the Rescue Compton Mackenzie – Rich Relatives René Maran – Batouala L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside George Moore – Heloise and Abelard Paul Morand – Tender Shoots Baroness Orczy *Castles in the Air *The First Sir Percy Alejandro Pérez Lugín – Currito of the Cross Gene Stratton Porter – Her Father's Daughter Marcel Proust *The Guermantes Way *Sodom and Gomorrah Sukumar Ray – HaJaBaRaLa Iñigo Ed. Regalado – May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche Naoya Shiga – A Dark Night's Passing Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Road to Calvary Sigrid Undset – Husfrue Edgar Wallace *The Book of All Power *The Law of the Four Just Men Eugene Walter – The Byzantine Riddle and other stories Elinor Wylie – Nets to Catch the Wind Francis Brett Young *The Black Diamond *The Red Knight Yevgeny Zamyatin – We Children and young people Dorita Fairlie Bruce – The Senior Prefect Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Charles Boardman Hawes – The Great Quest Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind Albert Payson Terhune – The Heart of a Dog Else Ury – Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest Drama Hjalmar Bergman – Farmor och vår Herre Dorothy Brandon – Araminta Arrives Karel Čapek – R.U.R. Karel and Josef Čapek – Pictures from the Insects' Life Clemence Dane – A Bill of Divorcement Susan Glaspell – Inheritors and The Verge Ian Hay – A Safety Match A. de Herz – Mărgeluș Avery Hopwood – The Demi-Virgin René Morax – Le Roi David Roland Pertwee – Out to Win Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author Tristan Tzara – The Gas Heart Edgar Wallace – M'Lady Raden Adipati Aria Muharam Wiranatakusumah – Lutung Kasarung Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Water Hen '' Poetry Robert Frost – Mountain Interval Langston Hughes – "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", in The Crisis Charlotte Mew – Saturday Market William Carlos Williams – Sour Grapes William Butler Yeats – Michael Robartes and the Dancer Non-fiction Adolphe Appia – L'Œuvre d'art vivant Charles Bean – Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 , vol. 1 Joseph Chaikov – Skulptur Frank H. Knight – Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit D. H. Lawrence *Sea and Sardinia * – Movements in European History Edward Sapir – Language: an introduction to the study of speech Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Further Essays on Capital and Interest Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Zitkala-Sa – American Indian Stories Births January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer January 19 – Patricia Highsmith , American crime writer February 4 – Betty Friedan , American feminist author February 5 – Marion Eames , Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary , Indian historian and writer March 1 – Richard Wilbur , American poet and translator March 24 – Wilson Harris , Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist April 21 – Angela Bianchini , Italian fiction writer and literary critic May 23 *James Blish, American science fiction author *Ray Lawler, Australian dramatist May 29 *Mona Van Duyn, American poet *Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer June 11 – Michael Meyer , English translator and biographer June 14 – John Bradburne , English poet and missionary August 11 – Alex Haley , American writer August 17 – Elinor Lyon , British children's writer September 12 – Stanisław Lem , Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician September 15 – Richard Gordon , English author September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi , Nigerian writer October 2 – Edmund Crispin , English crime writer October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish poet, dramatist and writer October 17 – George Mackay Brown , Scottish poet November 6 – James Jones , American novelist November 22 – Brian Cleeve , Irish author December 20 – Israil Bercovici , Romanian dramatist and historianDeaths February 24 – John Habberton , American critic March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz , German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrian publicist May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán , Spanish novelist May 13 – Jean Aicard , French writer June 5 – Georges Feydeau , French playwright June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett , English Theosophist author July 4 – Antoni Grabowski , Polish Esperantist July 7 – Luca Caragiale , Romanian poet, novelist and translator August 7 – Alexander Blok , Russian poet August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev , Russian poet September 22 - Ivan Vazov , Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright October 10 – Otto von Gierke , German historian November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav , Slovak poet, dramatist and translator November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge English novelist and editorAwards James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare , Memoirs of a Midget James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey , Queen Victoria Nobel Prize in Literature: Anatole France Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale , Miss Lulu Bett Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edith Wharton , The Age of Innocence
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